druthers

1. 1.

   the right or chance to choose

   “given my druthers, I'd eat cake”

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Other forms of druthers

plural

drutherses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about druthers

What does druthers mean?

druthers means "the right or chance to choose".

How many syllables are in druthers?

druthers has 2 syllables: drut-hers. The stress falls on "drut". In IPA it is /ˈdɹʌðɚz/.

What is another word for druthers?

Close synonyms include preference. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is druthers a common word?

druthers is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.